Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/ostermann271107.htm Let's Reclaim Our Rights By Gunther Ostermann 27 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org Missed Opportunities? Conspiracy? Vested interests? Or just plain stupidity? What are human beings fundamental birthrights? We need to know- and claim it, especially for the disenfranchised and future generations, who cannot speak for themselves. Many people are concerned about injustice, unemployment, poverty, homelessness, drug addicts, healthcare, crime, war, terrorism, globalization, species extinction, natural resource depletion, pollution, climate change, and many other miseries that are destroying our beautiful planet. The late scientist Buckminster Fuller researched those problems and came to the following conclusion, in his book CRITICAL PATH in 1982. ³It is now possible to give every man, woman and child a standard of living comparable to that of a modern-day billionaire. This is not an opinion or a hope-it is an engineering demonstrable factŠWorld Game makes it eminently clear that we have four billion billionaires aboard our planet, as accounted by REAL WEALTH, which fact is obscured from public knowledge by the exclusively conceived and operated money-game and its monopolized credit system accountingŠWe find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending billions of dollars¹ worth of petroleum to get to their no wealth-producing jobs. It doesn¹t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Earth and humanity billions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.² This statement can be verified by the US research organization Technocracy, which stated some 70 years ago that, if we would operate our society in an intelligent manner, with the ŒEnergy Certificate¹, instead of money, than these could be our benefitsŠThe first 25 years of anybody¹s life could be devoted to schooling and job training, suiting a person¹s aptitude and ability, with no financial burden to student and familyŠA working age from 25 to 45 with perhaps a quarter the present working hours and then retirement with full purchasing power and privilegesŠEquality of men and womenŠFull medical and dental care for lifeŠNo more debts of any kind to anybodyŠAn orderly planned society obviates competition, advertisement and shoddy products to assure continuous sales and service. The whole fear industry could be transformed to render useful serviceŠThe present reason for economic crimes, alcohol and drug abuse would be goneŠNo more need for anybody to prostitute themselves. And no more wars! Imagine what it could be like now, 70 years later, if this would have been promoted like an automobile commercial? The late psychoanalyst, social theorist, and humanitarian Erich Fromm confirms what Fuller and Technocracy disclosed in his book THE SANE SOCIETY, with many examples. In view of the previously verifiable statements, it should be obvious that the people in education, business, and politics missed a fantastic opportunity to create, for the first time in history, a just and sustainable society. Sadly, there is nobody in ŒWho is Who¹ who will talk about such possibilities publicly. Shall we call it Missed Opportunities? Conspiracy? Or vested interests, as too many people are financially too comfortable to talk about it? But in view of our escalating problems, it is STUPIDITY if we carry on as usual. Anybody who professes to be concerned about Global Warming and global justice should live and lead by example with a new Global Ethic ³ Do not expect others to live with less than what you¹re willing to live with.² We should always remember; we come with nothing, and leave just the same. And for over one hundred thousand people the departure date is today. On January 6.1992 I saw a glimmer of hope in Time Magazine, when Ted Turner announced that ³he is not going to rest until all the worlds problems have been solved. Homelessness, Aids etc.² And he further stated ³If we don¹t make the right choice after we have all the information, then we don¹t deserve to live.² Well, as history shows, Ted never delivered. Nobody since has stepped up to the plate. Guess it¹s up to all of us. Our consumption oriented ³Having² society should be encouraged to explore the concept of ³BEING², a philosophy articulated by one of the greatest Jewish thinkers, the late Erich Fromm, in his books. Quote: ²If life¹s tendency to grow, to be lived, is thwarted, the energy thus blocked undergoes a process of change and is transformed into life- destructive energy. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life. Evil constitutes the crippling of human beings power. Criminals (and terrorists) are made not born.² The late scientist Ashley Montagu, is both frank and explicit in his book ³ The humanization of man² ³Evil is not inherent in human nature, it is learnedŠAggressiveness is taught, as are all forms of violence which human beings exhibit.² Why don¹t we apply such wisdom in society and the world, instead of clogging up the prisons and destroying our world in endless wars and wasteful competitions? In view of such powerful and verifiable statements, by these humanitarians, all members of past and present governments should be held morally, and some criminally. responsible, and that includes CEO¹s as well. Gunther Ostermann can be reached at •••@••.••• -- -------------------------------------------------------- Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org How We the People can change the world: http://governourselves.blogspot.com/ Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
